Author: NoVA

The process by which action and language becomes written words is heavy for me. Included within this is the process of reading and interpreting. Through experiencing this unfamiliarity I realized that there was great joy and discovery in theory and practice, and the journey between them.

As a part of my NoVA studies I spent the spring semester 2017 in exchange at Aalborg University – Copenhagen in Denmark. In a course project we studied CAMP – Center for Art on Migration Politics. I am sharing some insights from my experiences during the exchange. Walking in Copenhagen & the location of CAMP […]

Master’s in Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education (MA NoVA) at AALTO University opens for application on December 15, 2017. The application should satisfy both the AALTO University requirements and guidelines found here and the program specific requirements stated here. Good luck and get started!

“The First NoVA Art Exhibition” Visual Conversations with Cosmic Silence is an ongoing exhibition by MA NoVA students at NODE Gallery. The show runs till the 27th of October, 2017. All the works presented in the exhibition have varied media and techniques. What they have in common is an investigative approach to visual conversations. Some are […]

I have spent the last semester on exchange at Oslo and Akershus University College Of Applied Sciences (Norway). Oslo city is full of diverse public art pieces and events and also has a very lively contemporary art scene. Almost every week there is an opening of a new exhibition at different venues. By luck, I […]

As a NoVA on exchange in Spring semester 2017 in Oslo, one of the courses offered at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences within Masters in Aesthetic Subjects curriculum was called Project in Practice (PIP). The course focused on development, planning, and production of practical artistic projects included in artistic research in diverse […]

The Exchange Experience Text: Jie Zhao It was roughly two months ago when I attended a trip to a forest half an hour away from the center of Oslo. It was organized by the buddy-group in HiOA (Hogskolen i Oslo og Akershus). The Buddy-group is mainly for those of us who come to Norway as exchange students. […]

Video games have been studied for at least 20 years by now, but video games continue to change and turn into something that nobody had anticipated. How can we understand the changing content, values, and contexts of video games? On March 27th of 2017, game researchers gathered together in Copenhagen to discuss the concurrent and […]

As an exchange NoVA from Konstfack I decided to take the course Contemporary Art and its Social Context. The course gives an introduction to and explores understandings of contemporary art and its different roles and relations in society. A big part of the course consists of a project in collaboration with an institution, this semester […]

The journey started from Cyprus… I was in my hometown when students from Aalto had the first meeting for the “Accidental Tourist Guide’’. The reality reconstruction project is a collaboration among three universities (Zurich University of the Arts, AALTO University in Helsinki and Hong Kong Baptist University). Through Skype I ‘travelled’ back to a […]

One group dressed up as a construction crew and installed a discussion platform in Kiasma and at the railway station to engage passers-by to give their views about the subject. Photo: Alexandra Stroganova A project by students of Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education MA programme at Aalto University with the help and collaboration of […]

Oct 21, 2016Text: Aina, Aliisa and Matilda We set up the installation at different spots around the city center on Oct 4th, after which we noticed several things during the course of a couple of days. Depending on how populated the locations were, the little pieces of paper with information were ripped away very quickly. […]

Text: Aina Bexell, Matilda Löytty and Aliisa Talja Trees in the urban environment are isolated from their natural habitat, forest. Though they don’t seem to care much if surrounded by fences, their roots covered with tiles and cement, or their branches cut in form. They grow and photosynthesize and make the city green year in […]

1. Play: Perfect woman by Peter Lu and Lea Schönfelder – it was released for Kinect on September 14: See this video about the game and read more about it here: http://kotaku.com/1786853840 Picture credits: Peter Lu and Lea Schönfelder Peter Lu and Lea Schönfelder created Perfect Woman while working together at the UCLA Game […]

Me (guess which one) and Moomin in the Arabia ceramic exhibition, September 2014. I binge watched the Moomins cartoon in an attempt to know more about Finnish culture. 1. Museum of broken relationship Museum of broken relationships is a travelling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruin. Conceptualized in Croatia by […]

Me (in the Boomtown Rats Christmas shirt) and my sister, enjoying Sunday afternoon barefoot lawn bowls. Australia, Dec 2015. 1.HAM – Helsinki Art Museum This is my favourite art museum in Helsinki because I enjoy its wide variety of modern and contemporary exhibitions. When I first moved to Helsinki I discovered many contemporary Finnish artists […]

On my way from Tallinn to Helsinki – ferry is like my third home, after Tartu and Helsinki. 1. Tartmus Tartu Art Museum is my home town museum so for me it is a cherished place. Tartmus has wonderful exhibitions of Estonian, especially local (Tartu) contemporary artists’ works. Right now they are exhibiting Laura Põld’s […]

INVITATION The Walk / Kävely 1-3pm, Thursday May 26th 2016 Starting point: In front of the main entrance Aalto Arabia Campus, Hämeentie 135 “The Walk / Kävely” uses walking as an act to sharing professional views, knowledge, ideas and experiences, and learn from the others. The event is open for everyone from first year […]

1. Fotografisk Center Fotografisk Center (Center of Photography) is Copenhagen based exhibition space dedicated to camera-based art. Its main purpose is to raise awareness of video and photography – from art to photojournalism. The exhibition space presents around 6 exhibitions a year and further host events such as artist/curator talks, and they have a great […]

Me and my daughter Agnes took a selfie in the colorful exhibition from Olafur Eliasson at Moderna Museet in November 2015. Me to the left (-: 1. Monday afternoon in the Konstfack research week, Feb 1st The research week presents ongoing research at Konstfack, this year with a focus on the doctoral students. Presentations and […]

Text: Grace Hewitt I am a native of Australia but I have lived in Finland since January 2011. Currently I am engaged with the thesis phase of the NoVA Master’s programme. The Master’s thesis, which I am currently working on, is an arts-based and autoethnographical investigation into the on-going experience of homing myself within a […]

While taking part in the Brushes with History conference, at Teacher’s College in NYC in November 2016, I had time to visit exhibitions and the roof terrace in the New Museum. 1. Ote / Points of View exhibition in EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Areena This exhibition shows one work from the Saastamoinen […]

1. Dome of Visions Dome of Visions is a sustainable experiment – a culture house/art space/community space and green house in one. The construction is build from reusable and recycled materials without toxic chemicals, and the curatorial profile stresses the importance of democratising the aesthetic – making the aesthetic practises and knowledge productions accessible […]

Heidi Bale Amundsen and Gerd Elise Mørland just received the book Curating and Politics Beyond the Curator from the printer. 1. #ArtOffline #ArtOffline, a documentary directed by Manuel Correa showed at the Sculpture Biennial at Vigelands Museum in Oslo in an exhibition called The art belongs to those who see it, curated by Anne Szefer […]

Text: Karina Angelika Kosasih and Margit Jugar The scenery on the way from our accommodation to Nýlo At the end of August we began our two week internship in Nýlistasafnið (The Living Art Museum). Additionally, Anna Brink from the Art Education program at Konstfack University College of Art, Craft and Design, also joined us. We were interested […]

“A picture of you working,” they said, “somehow related to your studies” they said 1.Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins, Author: Caroly Dever, Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture For any fan of cultural psychoanalysis, the victorian novel and maybe feminism. This book is replete […]

From the book release of the anthology EDGE: 20 Essays on Contemporary Art Education 8th of October in Aalto Universtiy. Ulla Lind on the left with a Finnish colleague and co-author Jaana Erkkilä, they both have two articles in the anthology, one as a pair and individual. 1. Sweater Mountain: Finally @ Konstfack 12.12.2015 Sweater […]